I am going to use a Denon 3802 in the main room and also 4 speakers in 2 different rooms but on the same zone. Each room on the second zone will have a imp. matching volume control with IR receiver. There will be about 6 emitters needed in the A/V closet. My question is which Xantech connecting block should I use? Is this considered 3 zones or really 2? If you tell me to use a 2 zone block I guess I would connect both of the second zones receivers to the same input on the block? I see they have a 4 zone is that overkill for this application?

I also saw a post that said the CFL friendly receivers won't pass RCA IR. What do you guys do if a CFL friendly receiver is called for on an outdoor location with RCA equipment such as a sat receiver?

Last question :) In the main zone I have a lot of options with IR receivers. Do you guys like the decora wall plate receivers or do you prefer the dinky link or the little round one hidden? The equipment will not be visable. Just the TV and speakers against a wall with the center on top of the TV.

TIA

Bump :)

Run your receivers paralell from what i gather you told us there is a main room and two other rooms running off the multisource on the receiver
as for your emitters you can run them in series for best results. You need to be more specific on what you are trying to do with the system. E me at [email protected] and i will see what i can do for you.
talk to you soon

Well, you would need a one zone connecting block. Just use a simple one zone block and run all the IR receivers into its input. Then run all the IR out to the gear, if the Denon has an IR in for the multizone controls you can try to use that, but you may need a interface from Xantech also for reliable operation.

Be sure you teach your other rooms remotes the multizone control codes, or you'll change the main rooms source also. The only reason you would need a 2 zone connecting block is if you had seperate sources for those zones. But since it sounds like you'll be sharing sources between the zones, and the remote zones will have the same audio source playing, then you only need the single zone connecting block.

Thanks Matt that is exactly what I was asking. :) I am going to use an MX-700 for this. This for a friend of a friend type barter get my house painted thing. :)